"I can't keep somebody from being a..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.”

“There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.”

“My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.”

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

“People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.”

“The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.”

“If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.”

“Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.”

“It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”